
Turkish Vice President Cevdet Yilmaz on Monday said that Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974 brought peace not only to Turkish Cypriots and to the north of the island, but to Greek Cypriots and the island in its entirety.
Speaking at a military parade in north Nicosia to mark its 52nd anniversary, he said “the 11-year period of persecution and the ordeal which Turkish Cypriots endured between 1963 and 1974






